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[email protected] Advance Access publication 25 October 2014 CCR8 regulates contact hypersensitivity by restricting cutaneous dendritic cell migration to the draining lymph nodes Rikio Yabe1,2,3,*, Kenji Shimizu1,2,*, Soichiro Shimizu2, Satoe Azechi2, Byung-Il Choi2, Katsuko Sudo2, Sachiko Kubo1,2, Susumu Nakae2, Harumichi Ishigame2, Shigeru Kakuta4 and Yoichiro Iwakura1,2,3,5 1Center for Animal Disease Models, Research Institute for Biomedical Sciences (RIBS), Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba 278-0022, Japan 2Center for Experimental Medicine and Systems Biology, The Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo (IMSUT), Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan 3Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Inohana Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8673, Japan RTICLE 4 A Department of Biomedical Science, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, FEATURED Tokyo 113-8657, Japan 5Core Research for Evolutional and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan Correspondence to: Y. Iwakura; E-mail:
[email protected] *These authors equally contributed to this work. Received 2 September 2014, accepted 17 October 2014 Abstract Allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) is a typical occupational disease in industrialized countries. Although various cytokines and chemokines are suggested to be involved in the pathogenesis of ACD, the roles of these molecules remain to be elucidated. CC chemokine receptor 8 (CCR8) is one such molecule, of which expression is up-regulated in inflammatory sites of ACD patients.